Mark 10
HOW RICH?
Jesus said, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” (Mark 10 v 24 – 25).
The disciples picked up on the idea of what Jesus was saying when they asked each other, “Who then can be saved?” (v 26). They didn’t ask, “How can a rich man be saved?”, they asked, “Who then can be saved?” We are all rich!
How rich is rich? Where do we draw the line? Someone who is considered below the poverty line in New Zealand would live like kings somewhere else. And someone who considers themselves poor in another country would be at the top of the heap where I live.
We all put a certain amount of trust in our money and possessions. If that were not so, we would not use money or have possessions. We also put our trust in our own strength, talents and intellect, and maybe it is in those areas that we are rich. Perhaps the definition of worldly riches is when we trust in ourselves or our possessions over God.
When Jesus answered the question, “Who then can be saved?”, he said, “With man this is impossible.” (v 27). We cannot save ourselves, and our possessions certainly cannot save us. “But not with God; all things are possible with God.” (v 27).
No matter how rich we are (and we are all rich), we need to put aside our love of riches and put our trust in God. It is only by God’s grace we can be saved.
May we put our trust in the God today.
With love in our Lord,
Robert
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